Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Anybody who has any evidence of any form of tax, program or grant fraud should obviously bring that forward. As I said in relation to the primary question, the Australian tax office used its range of powers and data and information to be able to determine eligibility at the different points of the JobKeeper scheme, which went through different stages as we tightened its eligibility criteria along the way.

In that first phase it was very much a program designed to be able to intervene, rapidly and quickly, across the Australian economy and to save jobs. According to the Reserve Bank's research, at least 700,000 jobs were saved just in the period of April to June last year, the period when the JobKeeper scheme was initially opened up and had the widest eligibility criteria to provide certainty in underpinning the Australian economy. It did that. It did that effectively, and it saved jobs as a result.